My heading is ambiguous: does it refer to 'I'll take all the Jazz I can get', or 'I can only take Jazz this evening'. It's the latter. Nerves are jangly, concentration nil, too much to do. Am working on partners Mac as my PC is chugging along opening files in Audacity which I edit then save as MP3's. Takes an age so instead of watching the blue squares fill up the bar, thought I would blog.

Got Diana Krall on the CD player. An early album 1995 Only Trust Your Heart. Some excellent covers on it: Is You Is Or Is Aint My Baby, Folks Who Live On The Hill etc. I can listen to her anytime. Saw her at the NEC, had great seats and really enjoyed the whole thing. She has a sultry reserve about her which I find intriguing. Hubby Elvis Costello was at the back of me by the control console.

My loft extension got the 'pass' today after 3 visits from the building inspector who seems to find something on each visit to annoy him. Joke really as his first visit was 10 minutes long and he hardly looked at anything. I kinda feel that if I am spending this amount of money on my home, I have the right to say how I want things to look but due to new regulations being made every 5 seconds, it's their way or not at all.

My banjo, guitar and mandolin is being stored at my sisters and it'll be some time before I get them back as we now wait for the decorators. I'll have forgotten how to play any of them but then I get the challenge of starting all over again.

Guess autumns upon us, this I know as I watched a squirrel about 4 feet away from me digging up my lawn, drop something in this amazingly neat hole and then pat the top soil with his paws and scamper off. Do you think I could find what he had done on closer inspection? Clever these squirrels.

Builders have finished the loft conversion after a 7 week build hence why not much blog writing from me. It was well worth it except we now face weeks of decorating and cleaning. But I do now have somewhere to house my vinyl in the new storage area which I am well chuffed with, at the moment they are stored on shelves I can't get to.

Have even neglected my beloved ipod for a few weeks but today I am working and listening to my CD Soundtrack collection to sort what I wish to keep and those I wanna chuck. I use to be fanatical about buying soundtracks but over the last few years the art of composing specifically for film has been on the decline. It's now fitting appropriate music and songs into a movie which is cheating and does not enhance a movie in anyway. The one recent exception being Sofia Copolla's Marie Antoinette which really worked.

My first listen of the day, however, does not - it has the dubious words on the slip case saying: 'music inspired by 8 Mile', which is a film starring Eminem. I like Eminem, he's angry, in touch with the world as it is today and has a compelling, double tracked voice. But I'm afraid I only like the one track on this s/t which was a single he released called Lose Yourself.

My second listen was The Eurythmics music for 1984 realesed in, yes, 1984. It's a great CD but I remember that it didn't really suit the movie. The tracks make full use of Annie Lennox's great voice, not so much singing but the grooves she gets into and with the heavy percussion the whole thing comes over as almost tribal. I recommend it.